Tag: DFO
Can BC Hold the Line on Protecting our Provincial Fish?
James Casey December 11, 2013
I recently learned that DFO and the Provincial government are currently in discussion about how to change things in BC so that the Fisheries Act will not apply to all of BC’s waters.
What does the new biodiversity plan mean for Canada?
Guest Blogger November 9, 2010
I remember well when the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. I was living there at the time. UNCED was a successful and inspiring Conference where a number of important international instruments and agreements were adopted, including: the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).